Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson

In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy · Jun 4, 2026 · 59m

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Episode Summary

Blair is the Chief Engineer of Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, overseeing nine to ten teams building the AI platform that powers Australia’s largest bank and its millions of customers. Including me, a Dollar Mite since primary school.

His origin story is not what you would expect. He was a self-described hacker who grew up clicking through every system configuration setting he could find on his mum’s school computers after hours. That curiosity took him from building on GPT-2 before ChatGPT even existed, to the heart of one…